SCOOP: The Kansas newspaper raided Friday by cops had been investigating allegations of sexual misconduct by the chief of police at his previous job. Read my full convo with Eric Meyer, publisher of the Marion County Record: https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the-newspaper
![excerpt from link: EM: So the backstory that we haven't told, because we don't wanna get in trouble, is that we've been investigating the police chief [Gideon Cody]. When he was named Chief just two months ago, we got an outpouring of calls from his former co-workers making a wide array of allegations against him saying that he was about to be demoted at his previous job and that he retired to avoid demotion and punishment over sexual misconduct charges and other things.
We had half a dozen or more different anonymous sources calling in about that. Well, we never ran that because we never could get any of them to go on the record, and we never could get his personnel file. But the allegations—including the identities of who made the allegations—were on one of the computers that got seized. I may be paranoid that this has anything to do with it, but when people come and seize your computer, you tend to be a little paranoid.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:ejihld4sywvvqwe67cdkn4jq/bafkreia6voh4vd6xqohfa6zfzn56ifbrq3lsbbbkpgi4b32zt7x73ml2iu@jpeg)
Great job 👏
Did they think the raid would go, um, unreported? 
Of course
the sheriff gangs of the wild west live to run every city & county in the usa.
Amazing interview. Scoop is exactly right. Journalism is alive and well because of people like you and Meyer. Thank you.
Were the seized computers encrypted? If I was one of these accusers, I wouldn't want my name in the hands of someone who is known to be both armed and a sex pest.
Following you now. Everyone should be reading independent news sources in place of legacy media.
This is exactly what we can expect if we don't stop Republicans from holding any consolidated power. Thank you for telling this story.
Fascism is alive and well in Kansas.